Exotica

Author : Aminder Dhaliwal
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465374

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Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal Pdf

“The characters in Dhaliwal’s stories sparkle. They’re tenderly rendered and their problems are real... The struggle of the cyclops unfolds in metaphors for race, sexuality, gender, and disability, tangling with ideas about fetishization, interracial relationships, passing, and representation.“—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House Following the critical and popular success of Woman World—the hit Instagram comic which appeared on 25 best of lists—Aminder Dhaliwal returns with Cyclopedia Exotica. Also serialized on instagram to her 250,000 followers, this graphic novel showcases Dhaliwal’s quick wit and astute socio-cultural criticism. In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor’s office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the majority. Whether they’re artists, parents, or yoga students, the cyclops have it tough: they face microaggressions and overt xenophobia on a daily basis. However, they are bent on finding love, cultivating community, and navigating life alongside the two-eyed majority with patience and the occasional bout of rage. Through this parallel universe, Dhaliwal comments on race, difference, beauty, and belonging, touching on all of these issues with her distinctive deadpan humour steeped in millennial references. Cyclopedia Exotica is a triumph of hilarious candor.

Author : John Hutnyk
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0745315496

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Critique of Exotica by John Hutnyk Pdf

Challenges academic complicity in the reification of exotica

Author : David Toop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060011767

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Exotica by David Toop Pdf

Merging anecdote and biography, autobiography and interviews, fact and fiction and a characteristically eclectic selection of music, David Toop spirals us through the 20th century's guilty fascination with exotica. Notions of the exotic have long inspired musicians across the musical spectrum, from classical to ?easy listening? to rap - from Stravinsky to the Boo-Yah T.R.I.B.E. Exotica takes a look at some of the world's most witty, experimental and adventurous sound recordings while taking in the work of Les Baxter, the meaning of Carmen Miranda, leopard skin leotards, pink fluffy cubicles, elevator music, and more... Painstakingly researched and brilliantly insightful, Exotica includes interviews with Burt Bacharach, Ornette Coleman, Bill Laswell, YMO's Haroumi Hosono, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and The Boo-Yah Tribe.

Author : Francesco Adinolfi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822389088

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Mondo Exotica by Francesco Adinolfi Pdf

Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio host Francesco Adinolfi provides extraordinary detail about artists, songs, albums, and soundtracks, while also presenting an incisive analysis of the ethnic and cultural stereotypes embodied in exotica and related genres. In this encyclopedic account of films, books, TV programs, mixed drinks, and above all music, he balances a respect for exotica’s artistic innovations with a critical assessment of what its popularity says about postwar society in the United States and Europe, and what its revival implies today. Adinolfi interviewed a number of exotica greats, and Mondo Exotica incorporates material from his interviews with Martin Denny, Esquivel, the Italian film composers Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani, and others. It begins with an extended look at the postwar popularity of exotica in the United States. Adinolfi describes how American bachelors and suburbanites embraced the Polynesian god Tiki as a symbol of escape and sexual liberation; how Les Baxter’s album Ritual of the Savage (1951) ushered in the exotica music craze; and how Martin Denny’s Exotica built on that craze, hitting number one in 1957. Adinolfi chronicles the popularity of performers from Yma Sumac, “the Peruvian Nightingale,” to Esquivel, who was described by Variety as “the Mexican Duke Ellington,” to the chanteuses Eartha Kitt, Julie London, and Ann-Margret. He explores exotica’s many sub-genres, including mood music, crime jazz, and spy music. Turning to Italy, he reconstructs the postwar years of la dolce vita, explaining how budget spy films, spaghetti westerns, soft-core porn movies, and other genres demonstrated an attraction to the foreign. Mondo Exotica includes a discography of albums, compilations, and remixes.

Author : Henley Grose Smith,William Forsell Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : UCBK:C026311487

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Rhopalocera Exotica by Henley Grose Smith,William Forsell Kirby Pdf

Author : Arthur Butler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368838300

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Lepidoptera Exotica by Arthur Butler Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Stone Blue Editors
Publisher : SBE Media
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Yma Sumac [exotica vocalist] by Stone Blue Editors Pdf

Yma Sumac: Exotica World Music Vocalist The next Musician Snapshots book in the 'Music You Should Hear Series' is a profile of singer Yma Sumac. With a four-octave range, Peruvian vocalist Yma (pronounced EE-ma) Sumac shocked and captivated 1950s America and became a household name around the world. Her first few albums included loose interpretations of South American melodies with Afro-Cuban rhythms and Western-style instrumentation, making her albums avant garde yet accessible, and cementing her status as the queen of the new musical genre of “exotica.” Not only did her extremely wide octave range make audiences stop in their tracks (for reference, most people have a singing range of around 2-3 octaves), but her fearless vocal experimentation was a stark contrast to the sweet crooners like Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby who were the top sellers in 1950, the year her first album was released. She was soon featured on Broadway, cast in movies alongside stars such as Charlton Heston, and performing sold-out shows from Las Vegas to New York.

Author : Patrick Sart
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781420807271

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Shoe Exotica & Poems by Patrick Sart Pdf

At last, internationally reknown artist, writer, and raconteur, Patrick Sart beings forth his 1st Volume of poetry and art, "SHOE EXOTICA & POEMS, VOL I". Amongst these pages readers will find BALM for their aesthetic souls - not only for unusual poetry if they care to read, or if not but also, to peruse his bizarre drawings of footwear. "As strange as it may seem", says Patrick, "there is something for al book collectors in this volume no matter what their taste in shoes or poetry may be. I guarantee it!" Also, not one to just "toot his own horn", P. Sart introduces the work of Charles Carroll in an addendum that presages much more in the soon to be published Vol. 2. His writing offer an interesting take on Hollywood's many productions on Films. Some call it slop for the masses of TV time with a sacred touch.

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434457059

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Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica by Brian Stableford Pdf

Eleven stories of science fiction and fantasy by a master writer of the fantastic, including four tales published for the first time.

Author : Arthur Gardiner Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : UCBK:C046899446

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Lepidoptera Exotica, Or, Descriptions and Illustrations, 1869-1874 by Arthur Gardiner Butler Pdf

Author : Henley Grose Smith,William Forsell Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Butterflies
ISBN : UIUC:30112089530668

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Rhopalocera Exotica, Being Illustrations of New, Rare, and Unfigured Species of Butterflies by Henley Grose Smith,William Forsell Kirby Pdf

Author : Howard C. Hughes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262582049

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Sensory Exotica by Howard C. Hughes Pdf

An entertaining guide to the exotic sensory abilities of the Earth's nonhuman creatures. Certain insects and animals such as bees, birds, bats, fish, and dolphins possess senses that lie far beyond the realm of human experience. Examples include echolocation, internal navigation systems, and systems based on bioelectricity. In this book Howard C. Hughes tells the story of these "exotic" senses. He tells not only what has been discovered but how it was discovered—including historical misinterpretations of animal perception that we now view with amusement. The book is divided into four parts: biosonar, biological compasses, electroperception, and chemical communication. Although it is filled with fascinating descriptions of animal sensitivities—the sonar system of a bat, for example, rivals that of the most sophisticated human-made devices—the author's goal is to explain the anatomical and physiological principles that underlie them. Knowledge of these mechanisms has practical applications in areas as diverse as marine navigation, the biomedical sciences, and nontoxic pest control. It can also help us to obtain a deeper understanding of more familiar sensory systems and the brain in general. Written in an entertaining, accessible style, the book recounts a tale of wonder that continues today—for who knows what sensory marvels still await discovery or what kind of creatures will provide the insights?

Author : Abbie De Vera-Jackson
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468924596

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Prozac & Exotica in a Tattoo Parlor by Abbie De Vera-Jackson Pdf

Author : Patti Larsen
Publisher : Patti Larsen Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927464663

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Exotica by Patti Larsen Pdf

Welcome to Silver City, where friendship can be murder... Bodies wash up on the Silver City beach all the time, but this one is different. Detective Geraldine Meyers is hot on the case, with help from medical examiner Dr. Rachel Hunter and anthropologist Dr. Kinsey DanAllart. Will they deduce a logical explanation for the murders? Or will the three friends uncover a deeper conspiracy hiding the truth about what's stalking their city's nightclubs? KEYWORDS: police procedural, murder mystery, detective mystery, female detective, women sleuth

Author : Eden Bradley
Publisher : Black Lace
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Erotic stories
ISBN : 0352347171

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Exotica by Eden Bradley Pdf

Welcome to Exoticaa Leave your inhibitions at the door Lilli DeForrest is hoping for a week of pampering and relaxation, but when the beautiful Rajan steps into her suite, the attraction is immediate. Rajan is her ideal lover: tender, commanding and intensely erotic. But, as Lilli is about to discover, his masterful touch is just the beginninga An utterly delicious erotic romance perfect for fans of E.L. James and Sylvia Day